" Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and
categories of people: in other words, how do particular ways of organizing sound become …

• Demonstrate how Taylor's ideas about the individual body were superseded by the
development of the Sociological Department in the Ford Motor Company. Consequently, the …

This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the
development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the …

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the US-Mexico border and from
klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into …

This insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to provide a succinct overview of
the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in …

This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of
subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London's 'Elizabethan underworld', taking the …

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and
institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the …

2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond
Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in …

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African
Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex …

Improvising music involves a leap into the uncharted, but its success relies on abilities
honed through experience and on an unwavering commitment to the moment and context of …